The Art of the Job Search
The job search is a process. A process that involves training, strategy, and patience. Much like an artist works to craft and design their masterpiece. The planning and strategy involved with your job search should begin no less than six months prior to when your job search begins. These preparations involved include fostering relationships, establishing […]
Failure Sucks but Instructs. Ask Starbucks.
Achieving milestones within a department or an organization is a process that involves a clear strategy, research, team members, and the flexibility to change and adapt along the way. Just like leaders, a company’s culture or environment doesn’t just happen. Great cultures are made from the top down and the down up. The key in […]
Facebook: Your Business’s Online Front Porch
This post was written and published in the August 2011 issue of Edmond Active Magazine. I’m delighted to be their business and social media columnist. Social media is a community, a place for friendships, business, and conversations. Not unlike the small town I grew up in of Mayetta, Kansas. People shared stories about their […]
The Home Office or Coworking? The Life of an Entrepreneur
This is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately: The home office or coworking? It’s really weighing on my mind. For the last two years I have home officed out of my home. I work from the living room, kitchen table, my bed, or home office answering calls, helping clients, and running my business. […]
How to Recruit & Source Candidates on Twitter
It’s no secret that Twitter is an information search engine. With more than 155 million tweets per day, it is now the place for breaking news. Even the raid on Osama bin Laden was accidentally live tweeted by someone who was complaining about loud helicopter noises in a remote area of Pakistan. He later realized […]
The Domestic Man. Are They Pulling Their Weight?
As a mother, I struggle like most with balancing my responsibilities as a mom and business professional. As an entrepreneur, I work to juggle my travel and consulting schedule as well as my husband’s with the demands of being a mother and executing the day to day household tasks. Having my daughter nearly 3 years […]
